David Gessel
Pouring
Truck 5 of 16
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my data center in iraq
First pour.
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You Now Have Hemorrhoids
I sign into Facebook and am greeted with the following diagnosis: You how have timeline.
I resisted as long as I could, but sooner or later really bad interface design always seems to poop over everything.
Cat Farm
One of the cats we’re raising on the cat farm.
..Graphics/Tiff & GCC 4.6.4
The latest (as of this writing) GCC port to FreeBSD 9.0 ended up creating some compile problems when I did a portupgrade -ra: /usr/ports/graphics/tiff couldn’t find some libraries:
g++46: error: /usr/local/lib/gcc46/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd9.0/4.6.3/crtbeginS.o: No such file or directory g++46: error: /usr/local/lib/gcc46/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd9.0/4.6.3/crtendS.o: No such file or directory *** Error code 1
The problem is that there is no more 4.6.3 directory once you install 4.6.4. I didn’t bother debugging the port problem, though I probably should have and informed the port maintainer and all of those good citizenship steps but instead took a shortcut that solved the problem:
cd /usr/local/lib/gcc46/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd9.0/ ln -s 4.6.4 4.6.3 cd /usr/ports/graphics/tiff make clean portupgrade -ra
And all is good.
Windows Sucks
While I have run into development cases where windows was effectively required, any developer that builds from scratch on such a crappy foundation saddens me.
Make the world a more secure and reliable place: open source software on open source platforms just works better.
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First RAV4 rental
A fine little car.
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Complex Electrical Grids
Sometimes it isn’t so surprising that the grid is unreliable, but that it works at all.
Robin’s yellow pickup circa 1985
An high school friend of mine asked if I had any pictures of our old Turbo Pinto, and alas, I do not think I do. But I did remember some pictures of the even more entertaining conversion of Raab’s (he was into Saabs at the time) pickup truck into the super sport truck pictured here. The black and red details I remember painting, but I think it came yellow, Rob’s favorite color for cars due, I believe, to some line in a song that went “inside the walls of the citadel, yellow chariots race.”
Ah yes, classic brain sludge.
I fabricated that roll bar at Greg Leavit’s place and welded it into Rob’s truck for him after his mom worried that these particular vehicles were prone to roll-over accidents and tended to smoosh the occupants as the cab wasn’t particularly well reinforced. Back then, light trucks were considered work vehicles and didn’t have to meet car safety standards.
Rob’s mom’s fears turned out to be well-founded when Rob rolled the truck into a ditch in a late-night end-of-school-year drive home from college. He was fine, but the truck was totaled and lives now, only in our memories (to quote another movie favorite of ours from the era).
Giant Bird of Paradise Blooms Again
It hasn’t bloomed often, but it is pretty when it does.
